Sunday is the new Wednesday (20 December 2024)

For the final show of 2024, Marcus collects highlights of the year, gets to the bottom of a cancelled Summer festival, and gets Christmas well wishes from callers around the country.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News
Talks'd be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Festive, so festive, so festive. Okay, I don't know much
about Christmas, but here's something I do know. Once we
brought the children of tramboline and we decided to put
it up the night before Christmas. Keith from up their road.
He came round. Yep, isn't good spirits, but I wasn't good.

(00:40):
We put it up. We put it up wrong. I
think we put the mat up upside down. So we
did it twice. If you are buying the children a
tramp for Christmas, pay someone to put it up. Get

(01:01):
someone on your local community Facebook page for a box
of beers. Anyway, That's my only advice to you. The
other advice I've got for Christmas. If you're going away camping,
have a dry run. Put your team tap in the

(01:21):
backyard before you go, because there's nothing worse when you
arrive at a campground on New Year's Eve at about
four pm and you've been giving a camp site and
you're surrounded by people that have been on the cask
line for like three days, and they just sit in
their deck chairs. No one helps, They just watch you

(01:42):
as you struggle, and no relationship, no matter how good
it is, can really cope with a slight disagreementbout putting
up the tent. Don't be that person because you know what,
the kids are ratty and it's hot. Hang on, we
just put up the ten kids. Don't be that person.

(02:05):
Anything else. Today it feels like Christmas. I reckon. A
lot of people are on Christmas this weekend. I've spoken
a lot of people and they said, we're having Christmas Sunday.
Sunday is the new Wednesday. A lot of people are
doing that because then you see, you can go away
because let's face it, no one's working next week. So
most people today is Christmas Eve. Saturday is also Christmas Eve.

(02:29):
Sunday feels like Christmas. I think that's the way people
are doing it because Christmas isn't what it once well,
I can tell you the TV show is also terrible.
TV one, The Chase Christmas Special, what else some dud
movie like Helen goes to France or something? Is that

(02:51):
what it is? Missus Harris goes to Paris? What's on
TV one? The Royal Special Together at Christmas? The Lady
in the Van that's about that. The lady in the

(03:15):
van is about that out the writer and he had
a woman lived in his van right, a player. It
could be quite good, but it's not Christmas. What's before
the lady in the van Missus Harris goes to Paris
versus TV one, so it's it the Royal Variety performance. Okay,

(03:35):
were you seeing all this sky TV Guide? I'm going
to tell you what's on TV because this is a
traditional sky TV Guide Christmas Day, because some of us
will be stuck on our own for Christmas Day. It
won't be me. I have had Christmas Days on my own.
I found them quite relaxing. You haven't lived in here

(03:59):
on a Christmas Day on your own. Royal Special Together
at Christmas, Princess of Wales returned to Westminster Abbey to
host of special Christmas Carol service. Goodness, who's the Princess
of Wales? I feel I should know that. Channel two

(04:27):
Harry Potter and the Chamber pot of Secrets and Live
at the Apollo Christmas Special. TV three is the movie
Little Women. You heard it here first. I can't get
more information on the Website's not great for me to

(04:47):
get in touch. Marcus till midnight tonight. Oh there's another
movie on TV three, Saving Center. There you were. That's
what's happening now. What is happening for us? Who the
heck knows. I'll tell you what. Those British TV shows,
a lot of them wear the Christmas specials. They wear
those Christmas jumpers. Too hot here not the right climate

(05:10):
for a Christmas jumper. And for that we can be
very very, very very grateful. I've got no real plans
for tonight. I wouldn't mind hearing from some Christmas carols.
If your name is Carol, I'd like to hear from you.
If your name's not Carol, I'd also like to hear
from you too. I'd like to hear from you. If
you want to ring up and say it a panic

(05:31):
because your Temu gifts haven't arrived. That's something you could
talk about tonight, the Temu terror. More so every Christmas.
Every year at ZB, about two weeks before the end
of the year, our bosses email us and said, you

(05:53):
need to do your Christmas liners. And the boss will
then say, look, everyone hates doing them, even Hosking, And
the Christmas line is what's your plan for Christmas? Who's
your ideal Christmas guest. They also say, what is your

(06:14):
highlight and your lowlight of twenty twenty four. I can't
think what my highlight is. I'm not saying there was
no highlight, but it's hard to look back in the
year in isolation and work out the highlight. Well, it's

(06:38):
not like there was one thing. They think, Gee, that
was a highlight, not some viral moment, not like when
there was that guy that was this that was in
South Korea and he has been interviewed on TV about
North Korea and the kid run into the back of
the room. That was good. One often think about that
and gives a smile to my face. Anyway, So your

(07:00):
highs and lows of twenty twenty four, I don't want
anything that's depressing, like saying, oh, the lower did, But
you might have to say about that. You might feel
like you want to do a bit of a roundy
off equal. So there we go. You're around you, Oh,
Marcus Love the year highlight was as low light? Was

(07:21):
that sort of stuff, I'd be interested tonight eight. I'll
keep your idea with the news to be careful on
the roads. I'm only saying that because some people haven't
been careful on the roads. There was five deaths in
the South Island yesterday. Let's not repeat that, please, so
be cautious and be careful. By the way, Australia Victoria

(07:44):
huge bushfires. We here's so many stories about people moving
to Australia for better opportunities. They'll all be coming back
in five years. It'll get too hot. Everyone over there
is going on about the weather so hot. Anyway, you

(08:06):
might want to talk about that also, But if you
are a Christmas Carol, it'd be lovely to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
There might be something else you want to bang on
about tonight. Oh, by the way, the Breakers are playing
thirty six thirty one. I'm playing all right, it's thirty
eight thirty five. It's just changed the score. Ehi that
I read it wrong, So I keep you updated. In
the second three minutes left in the second quarter, which
is the same as the second half of the first half.

(08:34):
Oh yeah, I could talk all nights, and I'm so
excited about finishing work. But if you don't want to
come through, just say gooday. If there's something earth shattering
you want to talk about. You got your summer hat,
what's a good summer hat. I think probably the way
the weather's gone, you want to have a good hat
plan for summer anyway. But yes, that's the Christmas TV

(08:58):
schedule I've told you about. Thanks to the Sky TV
Guide slim pickings, they've said Boxing Day is better. I'll
tell you what I like on TV around Christmas. The
darts always good. If things are getting a bit heavy
in the lounge over dinner, check out find the couch.

(09:23):
Only one Luke Littler. There's only one Luke Littler. I
think for some of us, the darts is the great
savior because by watching the darts you don't need to
engage your brain. You can just sit there and avoid
everything else. Oh what are you doing? I watching the
darts always a fun thing to watch. One Luke Littler.

(09:48):
Boxing Day has Harry Potter three and the Royal Variety
performance from twenty twenty three. It's got a Rule Variety
performance from a year before last. Goodness gracious to me
get in touch. You on to be a part of
the show. Marcus till Midnight. There is something different you
to talk about. All he is would love to hear
from you, particularly if your name is Carol you could

(10:10):
be the Christmas Carol. Yes, Marcus, the best tenting heck
is to tape up those tent poles with insulation tape.
They don't come apart. I'm not sure about that, Marcus.

(10:34):
Why they're letting Daniel Faitawa go on Breakfast TV should
be Chris Chang. You've alway's got an opinion on who
should be on the TV, haven't they? How do you
think Chris Chang feels you're not supposed to. It's a
bit like all those online comments about Liam Lawson. Oh
they should have got the other guy.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
How would you know?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
People these days have really quick to have an opinion
about someone, aren't they. That's social media you've got to
kind of take it's all about taking sides. I got
involved with an invocable community chat the other day about
someone lost some swimming togs at the at the pool.
They lost two piece of swimming togs. Well, most of

(11:16):
the comments were about their great swimming togs. Where do
you buy them? So no one actually saying about where
they were, and in arguments about what the togs were for.
Poor woman's lost their kids swimming togs. Feels terrible and
I've never seen such topic creep in the comments section.
You know what, I sat there and I wanted to
join that fray. I want to start saying ridiculous things.

(11:40):
I felt my fingers twitching. I wanted to get involved
in some just mindless kind of interaction on a Facebook
community message page. Not staying in my lane. So all
of us are prone to relapse with that sort of stuff.
But basically with Facebook, if there's any comment on any

(12:03):
page that you think of doing things, is it of
any use? Is it related to the topic, Because there's
a lot of topic creep Talkback's all right because you
want the topic creep. You don't know where you're gonna
end up, Marcus, little drubber boy, please thank you, dying
Merry Christmas. Marcus highlight of the year was conquering a

(12:25):
twenty year phobia of flying and finally meeting my four nephews,
Richie from the Whited Upper good on, you're Richie and
I gather the playing landed safely par upper Pump Pump anyway,
get in touch. You want to be part of the show,
Marcus till twelve. There are topics, but I hope you

(12:52):
all got your mutton Hams who do tabs. You might
want to mention those. It is just five sleeps till Christmas.
It is go caroling Day. Here's something I can say
about go caroling Day? What about people driving around the

(13:13):
suburbs playing carrols? You don't see that much anymore. Salvation
Army on the back of a truck on Hayvale's once
in Royal David City stood a lowly kettle sheared, my
favorite of the carols. Doesn't happen anymore. Good or bad,
don't know, but nothing felt Christmas like the Salvation Army

(13:35):
on the back of a truck. Marcus Cully here, I
think it's Christian Cullen. I'm interested in ham glaze ideas.
What you're doing for your hem this summer? Well for
mere be a mutton hem. I don't know about a hem.
What it seems to be hot to glaze a ham
all hot? But get in touch by name is Marcus? Welcome?

(13:59):
If you want to start the whole ball rolling. If
you want to, don't ring. If you don't want to,
what are these people ring? They don't want to be
on here, idiots? You just ring if you want to go,
and he Dean doesn't want to talk to people off here,
we'll ringing to let them know they're going to ring
it later. I'm looking at Richie mccau's new house and

(14:19):
Warnica he's gone with that shist with the flat kind
of mortar that comes right up so you don't see
much of the block. Looks like quite blue colored schists too,
probably from up the Lindis. I don't know who the
stone masons are. They've certainly gone to town on the schist.

(14:44):
Few of the rocks are put on the side. Don't
know about that, but showy, that's just from a stone
mason's point of view. Apart from that, looks pretty good. Susan, Marcus, welcome,
Hello Marcus, good gie, sound brighton breezy, Susan. Nice to
hear from you.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
Well, I'm sitting here outside on a beautiful evening at
Powatahanui cheapers creepers. You're still there, yeah, yeah, and it's
just a lovely calm evening. So my highlight I think
for this year we'll be catching my first snipper.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh that's a great highlight. That is a great highlight.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
And it was a big one.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Where you get off the off Titahi Bay or where'd
you go no, I was in Makatani.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
Yes, off a hope, yes.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah, and it was twenty two pound cheepers.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Okay, we're in a boat or on at the off the.

Speaker 8 (15:46):
Yeah, yeah, off a boat?

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (15:49):
With them back?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
What is you would? Would that be good eating?

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Yeah? I think so. But the guy, the skipper of
the boat said, oh, well he's a breeder, so we'll
put them back.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, good things for the skipper to say, because you
carefully say, Alextra, I want this one because and you
took the photo for Facebook of you holding it with
a big smile.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
Oh absolutely, yep.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Who's that in the background.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
Thank you very much for.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
The Yeah, thank and thank you for the year. Susan
all your people too nice to hear from you. Twenty
four away from nine. Oh oh, thank you so much.

(16:41):
Marcus Tidier is the name of a lovely woman at
Christ Church Hospel. She was a worker to help people
with cancer. Thanks Margaret. I appreciate that. So that was
Margaret that said I've read that text again, Marcus. The
lot of this year, my friend of over forty years
was totally had a month to live. The Holander is
now is Canta. Three out of six months chemo thanks
to christ Church Hospital and Tedier. Wow, Elvis Presley, please

(17:06):
love Elvis. Will there ever be another singer like Elvis?
He says rhetorically, Marcus, that question, Jinny may Coffin should
be the one to go. It's almost like people watch
Breakfast TV to be outraged. Hey, anyway, I love the

(17:33):
discussions your highlights of twenty twenty four, Oh Jae, we
can't stop the calls. Now get in touch, Marcus to
the end, the very end. I don't know what my
highlights are. I wish I've thought about my highlights, even
if I had to record the jingles, record the liners.

(17:56):
So much happens in a year, and when you got kids,
the highlights always your kids. That's the harsh reality. Like
you know, older, can I get him a bike? If
he got his belt in karate? He's still waiting, he
still waiting for the bike. I can't believe he did it.
He looked seem terrified. Anyway, I will get it, We'll

(18:17):
get it for.

Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Wow, I never thought he'd do it. I said, I've
mother just looked terrified for everything he needed to do. Anyway,
progress progress, progress, My goodness, We've got a new Burg
if you're franchising in the Cacle forgot what has needed
someone in there for a while, So good on that.
That's exciting. Just about four shops away from the studio anyway,

(18:45):
not that I'm a Burger for your person, but there
we go. Twenty Yeah, Michael, it's Marcus. Good evening and
welcome home, Michael.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
Yeah, here are going, Michael, Yeah, good Michael, thank you.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
So it's just on Christmas dinners. I had Christmass in
North America, Central America, South America, to Asia, probably another
in places as well. That was in the eighties the nineties,

(19:15):
but moving forward to the two thousand to two thousand
and nine ten, I cooked a pig on a spit,
and I got up every morning at about three o'clock
and start the fire, and it was a combination of

(19:36):
pine and a heavywood like total or tea tree. And
got going for a couple of hours and then started
to put the coals underneath the pig on the spit,
and I made of mine. He turned the peg every

(19:57):
five or ten minutes, very slowly. It took about at
least six hours to cook. We knew it was cooked
when it was basically pretty much falling off the the
split falling off the phone, and the quing was was
super crisp. So where I'm going with that though, is

(20:22):
back in I was it nineteen eighty six? I think
I was in Sudan and it was Christmas Eve, I think.

Speaker 11 (20:35):
And I bought a leg of coat the goat.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
Wow, yeah, they're just talking to my south Yep, yep,
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day. Can't remember now, but you bought
a leg of goat. And I've got a whole lot
of wood together and fire, got a fire going, and
found some really strong wood to keep the leg above

(21:02):
the above the fire. And yeah, I cooked that, cooked
that read and other than the pig a spit. Being
in a in a Muslim country unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, what was What was unbelievable, Michael, Just.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
The fact that you could be out there in the
desert with a fire. The only thing you had to
drink was water or.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Hard to find, hard to find any any fuel to
burn in the desert without many trees.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
No, No, it was. It was on the edge of
the desert. And if you hunted around and asked right people,
when you could get enough would go in for a fire.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Did you glaze the goat.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
No, just slowly cooked it.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Y sounds delicious.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
Oh it was, well it was, and I said the
best part or not the best part, but the other
part was just washing all down with a cup of
tea or a cup cup of two cups of tea.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Great story, Michael, Thank you, Marcus. I should have rung
loll hollo out of the year. Toe straightening surgery, can
now work, can now walk pain free? Also retirement hints.
I'm in a caravan at Herbert Forest. If you asked

(22:40):
me where Herbert Forest was, I would have a vague idea,
but not really no Herbert Forest. Get in touch, Marcus
till midnight. Oh wait one hundred eighty, ten eighty and

(23:00):
nine to nine to to text anything else. You got
them all there for you eighteen to nine. Looks like
a nice camp campground Herbert Forest north of Morake. It's

(23:20):
a beautiful campground, got a blue shined block. It's quite peaceful, Marcus.
All enjoy as Marcus this Christmas, I'll enjoy a muttonham
for the re first time. We have two in the
freezer that we're from our sheep farm in Southland, so

(23:43):
one will be on the Christmas table. On Wednesday. My
heart of the year was going to drive our farm
tract of many business to you in your family. Can't
regards Tracy and Southland, I've asked her where in south
of but she's been evasive. I'm just trying to visualize
where that there are sheep farmers. They can't be closer.
There aren't many left. Oh, she did reply back, thank you.

(24:06):
I didn't get that text. There we go. How are
we going? People, Marcus? Even though I feel Christmas as
well as cash, is on the way out, I'd like
to wish you it is from the boys, a peaceful, safe,
stress for and happy Christmas. I wish from Nick. Thank
you Nick. I won't say what else Nick has said,
but thank you. Fancy having toe straightening surgery. I wouldn't

(24:30):
know much about that, but I'm pleased that was successful
to get that all sorted out before retirement. So I've
remarried Christmas to all those people. Do you know how
I love when I'm out and about. Sometimes I meet
people and they listen to the radio and they live
in mobile homes or camper vans, and that brings me
great joyce. I don't know why. There's something about those

(24:53):
people off there living the lifestyle radio on at night
before they go to bed. I don't know if we've
got the TV or not, but I'm into it. Good evening, Josie,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (25:07):
Hello, Hi jose Is that Marcus?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yes? Is it Josie? Yes, it is good evening.

Speaker 12 (25:14):
Welcome, Thank you very much. I just wanted to because
it's my birthday in a couple of days, so and
I ring you each year at Christmas, but I want
to wish you a wonderful you and your family a
wonderful Christmas, and thank you for the whole year in

(25:35):
which I have enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now, Josie, yes, what you were? You born.

Speaker 12 (25:42):
Nineteen twenty three. I'll be one hundred and one on Monday.
It is a bit of a big joke. I'm an
ancient I'm an ancient one, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
It means so much to me. But it's funny because
it's kind of it's a big deal having your birthday
on Christmas Day anyway.

Speaker 12 (26:08):
Oh it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, But when it's on, when is there anything planned?

Speaker 12 (26:15):
Oh no, Well I'm an retire village and my two
daughters coming to see me, So we'll just play it.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
By and of course they won't be young either, will they.

Speaker 12 (26:28):
No, No, they're in their seventies.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (26:32):
Yes, yes, so ancient ancient one. But and I'm just
in recovery mode from COVID. Yes all as well your
head COVID, Yes, get you over it.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Now it's in the homes. Does it get to the
rest homes?

Speaker 9 (26:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay, Well, as I told probably, as I probably told
you last last year I spoke, it is my father's
ninety fifth birthday on Sunday, so he's behind jubile. So
you're wearing a party for him tomorrow. So he's probably
in your neck of the woods, so he's still in
his home.

Speaker 12 (27:10):
But you enjoy that party. But tell him I think
he's just a baby.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Okay. Lovely to hear from you, Josie, Thank you so
very much. Stepping away from now, there ago one hundred
and one nineteen. I thought she got the numbers wrong
with ninety because I think keep thinking it's twenty twenty five.
But gee, is she will be one hundred and one.
That's amazing, isn't it. Things she would have seen the

(27:44):
first phone call?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
What is she?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Tv?

Speaker 10 (27:47):
Cheapers?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
End of World War anyway, that's great. That's made by
night one hundred and one joke. I forgot. I was
at work there for a while. Now what am I doing?
Five away from nine? I'm still waiting for Christmas. Carol,
which is a caller called Carol. I'll take Carol's and
Karen's carols and Knowles. We get a few carols. We

(28:11):
get a few Noah and Knowles, don't we Nol?

Speaker 13 (28:14):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well, I hope it's all going well for you. Can
I just say and this? You don't have to get
excited about this. Out of all the days Christmas is on,
I think Wednesday is my favorite. I love Christmas on
a Wednesday because you don't think I'm not going to
go to work for Monday and Tuesday, like if it's

(28:36):
on a Thursday. I don't like a lot of time
before Christmas. I don't know. Yeah, I don't like the
uncertainty before a big day. I find for me, it's
like dead time people just waiting for the inevitability. It's
just like you're in a holding patent waiting for the
drama of Christmas. So I don't like change. I like routine.

(29:00):
So suddenly if I've got like if Christmas is on
a Thursday, and I've got fullish work at the FRONDY
got Saurday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. That's the worst
for me. Ideally for Christmas, I like it on a
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. There you go, Glad I've
learned something about myself today. I reckon I should go

(29:20):
bigger on my vibes and what I feel about things,
because that's Christmas for me. Like it on a Wednesday
or Tuesday or Monday, Saturday. Don't like And they're saying
can work right up to Christmas Eve. But I think
we're allowed to these days because I like to put
them the well basically if basically the key to radio
management is to make people take their holidays. They're all

(29:40):
because it's accounting. It goes on the box. Accountancy is
account Its are always worry. How much leave you've got
owing is Yeah, you can imagine what they're like in payroll.
Oh he's got this spot all this suppose leaves. He
got obsessed with it. Anyway, how are you going people?
My name is Marcus. Good Evening Marcus. I live in

(30:02):
my motor home full Thomas and do you every night?
Love hearing the comments and store who is shared for
the topics you inspire the callers with Marie Marcus, I
listened every night when you are on. I will miss
you over the next few weeks, but wish you and
your family happy say holidays regard Sarah is a happy birthday, Josie.
What a wonderful lady. Lots of love. Happy Marcus, longtime texter,

(30:25):
never been a caller. Thanks either. You're a great entertainment
from some are not even halfway to one hundred and
one years old. Marcus. I lived on a boat for
a number of years in sold the boat and bought
a bus. I reckon everything gets salty on a boat.
This is on a river. By the way I can
tell this news, it's just come through. This will be

(30:46):
of interest to some of you. The Timeless Summer Tour,
which was supposed to be around the country christ Church,
Nap and you Plymouth tod on Auckland between January eleventh
and nineteenth, that has been put on ice, so I
think some of you will have tickets that if you have,
let me know, boys, George, Little Riverband, Tyler and Starship

(31:11):
get in touch, because I think that's probably quite a
big deal, starship, great band. Really well that's it's some bangers.
So there that's the situation. So if you've got some
more information about that, apparently if you've got a ticket,
you've probably been sending an email for that. It's very
late to be canceling. So the full briefing story is

(31:38):
Boy George was the main attraction for the Timeless Summer
Tour on yours in it in January. The tour was
expected to go to venues around the country. It's been postponed.
Was supposed to go to christ each day and you Plymouth,
Doddonga and Auckland between Jen eleven and the nineteenth. Emails
got out tonight saying the tour has been put on ice.

(31:58):
We are sat in to announce it. After considerable careful consideration,
we must postpone the inaugural time of Summer tour, which
was chevel to take place in New Zealand and Australia.
Please note that we are now working through the process,
including working with the artist's team to confirm new dates
and venues. I don't know what that's about, because it's

(32:20):
still going ahead with new dates and it doesn't mean
that they can't make any it's not ticket sales, is it.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Okay, it's a time when many music events are struggling
to survive or folding under the pressure of the current
financial climate. Timeless Summer is not excluded from the situation.
Adding to the hindrance is a last minute loss of
two venues, leaving us without the ability to deliver the
Timeless Summer Tour in two cities and no time to

(32:53):
secure all turnive locations. To combat this issues, we'll be
moving Timeless Summer Tour to indoor venues later in twenty
twenty five. Okay, I don't know what venues are struggling with.
It's probably not as bad as I first thought. A
lot of festivals on but yeah, what happens with festivals
is they always end up getting a bit sketchy. Marcus

(33:16):
Merry Christmas. Can you tell me if there is a
fireband in Canterbury and if it starts on Monday and
covers like Techapo and includes fireworks. We have a few
boxes to lead off for the new Year. I will
check fireworks and the fireband. I don't know anything about

(33:38):
that at the stage, Tina. Midday Monday, total fireband for Canterbury.
So you won't be letting off any fireworks at techapl
someone's predicting twenty twenty five Simon Dello to retire and

(34:01):
Daniel Fightawa to replace him. On the six PM News,
Marcus Muttenhammer is great. My daughter's cooking a slow cooked
leg of lamb with caper sauce for Christmas. I did
the same with mutton for the boys at Brothers Lighthouse.
Did you have mutton at the Brothers? So it's going

(34:21):
to be a very dry summer, I'll tell you what
for these first few weeks of summer. You know, sometimes
strange things happens in this country, sometimes for extraordinary numbers
of drownings or murders. Or there was one year about
twelve people died jumping off waterfalls. So just be careful
because you never know what the highlight's going to be, well,

(34:43):
not the headlines are going to be anyway, Marcus. The woman,
that nearly one hundred one year old woman made my
night too. I think she said a birthdays Monday twenty third, Yes,

(35:05):
I thought so too. Happy birthday to who, Happy birthday
to her. I am going to do my one hundred
and two year old ladies here on Tuesday just amazing.
I honestly think they've been seeing so much more than
we would have if we ever lived to that age.
Thank you, Joy. Joy must be a headresser, I think, Marcus.

(35:27):
I've listened to you every night for many years and
re enjoy your program. My worst for twenty twenty four
was my wife passing suddenly and unexpected midyear. We had
been married forty six years. My best for twenty twenty
four was our youngest daughter had a first child this morning.
What it's fantastic or well? I wish you and your

(35:48):
family with re best for Christmas, E very relaxing break.
I'll be waiting for your return. Reguest in regards and best,
which is Kevin D. What a kind email, Kevin, thank you.

Speaker 14 (35:58):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
And a baby born today? Goodness. I don't have as
a boy or a girl. But that's a boy or
a girl who their whole year is going to have
combined Christmas and birthday presents. Because such is the way
of having your birthday so late in the year. I
don't think anyone ever really likes it. Kevin. It's Marcus.

Speaker 15 (36:22):
Good evening, Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
How are you good?

Speaker 15 (36:25):
Kevin?

Speaker 10 (36:27):
Very good? Now about a week or so ago you
made him mentioned I think about Elton John losing his sight. Yes,
can you give me an update on that? Certainly because
I'm a very pressive pairent of Elton John. You're what sorry,
I'm a very favorite fan of Elton John.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
We want I mean, you're still be able to sing?

Speaker 10 (36:54):
Well, can he?

Speaker 2 (36:56):
I guess?

Speaker 10 (36:57):
So you know what I mean. If you can't read,
if you can't read what he's singing, you can't sing.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
But the whole key to him is he need to
have to read music because I remember when he went
to that audition for the Love for the for The
for The for the Conservatory in that move and he
went in there and they asked him to play something.
He just played the piece the last person had played.
Remember that?

Speaker 10 (37:20):
Okay, Okay, yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
So look, I just try I just have a quick
Google up to see I think he got an iron.

Speaker 10 (37:26):
Fiction Okay, okay, Yeah. It just concerns me.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
It really concerns me because I don't think his help's great.

Speaker 10 (37:37):
He's one of he's one of the probably one of
the best martyrs in the world.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
The greatest of our generations. That's what we're saying.

Speaker 10 (37:44):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I mean, I think this city has lost his sight,
but not permanently. I think he would have heard more
about it if he lost it permanently.

Speaker 10 (37:53):
Okay, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
But i'll see if I get So you're going to
go see Cliff Richard when he comes.

Speaker 10 (38:03):
Yeah, I can't answer that one. You just said.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a different no for that.

Speaker 10 (38:08):
Yeah, No, I'm not really a Cliff Richard. Tranny's terrible. Yeah. Hey,
we were born up in the same album seventy three now,
but we were born up in the same era basically,
and the Cliff Richard was not one of my top favorites.
Alvin John certainly was. I think it's the memory of

(38:29):
things that you remember that they're saying and you sort
of go back on it.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
You know, it's been four months since he's been able
to see his left eye. There is hope and encouragement
that'll be okay. So it's just something that's happened and
intends to recover from it. Keivin, Oh, good, brilliant, there
we go. Yeah, I thought that headline was like disingenuous clickbait.

(39:00):
We call it. We call that clickbait. Kevin when there's
the story. Got to click on to read the details. Clickbait.

Speaker 10 (39:06):
I don't do all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Obviously you made me do the clickbaiting for you. Yeah,
I don't do all that stuff. Now, what's this with?

Speaker 16 (39:15):
Al?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
What's this without? I don't do all that stuff? Get
in touch, Christina texts emails, Hi, Marcus, I've been to
most countries around the world and listened to talkback. I
have to say, you have to be one of the best,
or you have to be the best one godness, someone
else should listen to talkback. Lovely email he til twelve

(39:40):
by them as Marcus, welcome. You know what it's like,
the calm before the storm. No one really knows what
to talk about tonight when you can't check on Greyhound
racing and the interun feries because people on Christmas mode.
So you're stuck with pavlo. Oh that's the pavlov Shout
out to Cowl's Pavlovs and Dnedan always God save many

(40:01):
a Christmas. Your buy one of those PEVs, check something
on it. Boom your away, bomsh luck lack boom. I'll
tell you what New World have got vending machines outside
some of the supermarkets if you've run out of your essentials. Lame,
rarely lame promotional scheme. They're giving them money to the

(40:23):
mission or something, but they're just trying to make look
at that care But yeah, I thought it missed. But
the best summer promotion is that one where you text
them when you put your beers in the freezer and
they phone you. Vanilla Ice phones you to tell you
to get your beers out of the freezer thirty seven

(40:43):
minutes later. One of the greatest advertising or bear promotions
I think I've ever seen. I spoke to the manager,
my manager, well, yeah, I was talking to him about it.
I said, I said, is the beer any good? Excellent export,

(41:04):
ultra cold? It almost seems so good it should be illegal.
So yeah, that's the situation. It's a great promotion. I
mean sometimes once in a while the promotion comes on,

(41:25):
you've got to think jeapest creepers. They've nailed it, it
says head brew at dB Burett Breweries. Dave Eaton has
undergone a comprehensive scientific analysis to support the new service,
calculating that a room temperature bear children a minus fifteen
degrees freeze or reach an optimum drinking temperature of five
degrees after thirty four minutes. So I don't know who

(41:51):
came up with the idea, but they should write whenevery
award going YadA YadA yah, drink responsibly, et cetera. But still,
I guess you could try it with a can of
coke or something until you can still use it's free.
Or put your zap they still drink zap. Put your

(42:11):
chocolate milk in the freezer, they probably so. The thing
is right, You put your beer in the freezer, and
vanilla ice rings you to tell you when to get
it out. Even without vanilla ice, it would be a
good promotion with vanilla ice. Well, your dad's the icing
on the cake quite literally. What about Elton John Eh,

(42:34):
I think he stopped touring. Remember he came here and
he got standing pneumonia. No one knew what that was.
A week later everyone got COVID, but I don't think
it was COVID. But still it was weird. It was
called standing pneumonia and no one ever heard of it.
I thought it was weird. Then, of course he played
came back to play again at Mount Smart. When the

(42:56):
anniversary Day floods it everyone was stuck on those buses,
remember all of that. Hi, Margaret, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (43:10):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 16 (43:10):
I just thought i'd give you a ring about Christmas lights.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
And actually not really the Christmas lights, if you say that,
it's the traffic going to the Christmas lights, because I
just happened to forget that the Christmas lights are on
and now I'm stuck in traffic trying to get home.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Wow, which city are we talking, Margaret Hamilton?

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Well, Harfield lights.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Look, I heard about those for the first time last night.
I'd never heard. I didn't I didn't ever know that
because Harryfield's a suburb, is.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
It, Well, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I mean it's
a street hot Yeah, it's a big da it is.

Speaker 15 (43:47):
It is a very big deal.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
I mean the lines of traffic a try.

Speaker 9 (43:50):
Well.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
I took my grandson's there the other night and there
wasn't that many. We went in a good time, but
tonight it is shocker.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
I guess it's also probably going to be the busiest
night of the year because it feels like if this
feels kind of like Christmas Eve tonight, I reckon and
just the way it's falling on the week if it's
got that kind of vibe about it.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, and everyone would have finished work
and you know, yeah, it's only the people that absolutely
have to work on Monday and Tuesday will be working
on Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And look most because people are so kind of fiddly
with their holidays now, they always work out the right
time to take them. Ye, are the lights getting better
every year?

Speaker 4 (44:29):
I thought there may have been houses that hadn't you.
I thought there were a little bit less that, you know,
little fewer houses that headlights on. However, the houses that
had lights on and they've really gone to town and
there's some pretty spectacular displays.

Speaker 7 (44:47):
So yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
It's pretty amazing. They've been doing it for a long
time now.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
So and it must be hard if you buy a
house in that area, because you've really got to go
along with it, don't you. You can't not do it?

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Yep, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I think that. I
think the people that haven't got lights on have actually
shut up house and gone on holiday.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Yeah. Oh that's good. Okay, what are you heading for, Margaret?

Speaker 4 (45:12):
I was actually just trying to get home and I
forgot that the lights are on. So I'm stuck in
traffic waiting to get to the lights and get past it.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Also, oh, good luck with that, and lovely to hear
from you, Marcus about the Brazilian judge versus Adele. I've
listened to both versions today. They're not even close. Marcus.
On our way out of Auckland to Topor for a
few weeks with family. Several big rigs on the road
like Christmas on wheels. Many Merry Christmas from Emily Lush

(45:44):
New Talks. Z'd be merry Christmas, Happy New Year you
and your family. We will all miss you terribly, but no,
you truly need a superhighday break for your rest of
renew all. We love your wonderful abstract and formed of
a centeric can playful program. Blessings in your family from
yeeha piha. Marcus may not be popular. Oasis announcing their
return for next year. I got tickets to see them
in Manchester will be a big lift for the UK.

(46:07):
Low light the mayor in the council need I say more.
Lebron will be forty on the thirtieth of December. Here's
showing some signs of aging. He might retire in eighteen
months someone's told me that there's it cost you to
text about your beer.

Speaker 13 (46:24):
En.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Do you know about that? Well find O how much
I didn't know it'll cost. Marcus. You would need to
stagger the times you put your beer in the freezer, though,
if you put six and you don't want to pull
all six out of the freezer at the same time,
if you drank one at the optimal temperature, the other
five would not be the optical temperature. I presume I'm

(46:45):
not a beer drinker, but I presume you'd pull them
all out after the minutes and put them in the fridge. Marcus,
It's been a crazy rider of the year. I spent
most of the time in Australia's Mum with Mum. We
lost mom in August, my best friend five weeks ago,
but in the sadness where joys of meaningful lives lived
on the upside, an old friend designed to marry a

(47:06):
long time time partner today and my husband I said
about a thirty anniversary next week. Cheers to you and
you was ever a rest for a hot a, Sue.
I've read a great year of not watching any TV
at night except for coronations, listening to you and your
great listens. I have my favorites. Just want to let
you know. I got my grandson's girlfriend a beautiful jigsare
in a candle, Dan, that was the great YEP. That's

(47:30):
good to know. Festive greetings to you and the family.
I saw Cliff Richard at the Albert Hall, London and
nine to eighty three went on my oe. I went
alone after screwing free tickets from a customer and the
public worked out. My favorite band of all time was
super Trapped Lead Zep, but Cliff was apt to stand out.
Miss Tew Nights in the Dark with lights Une descending

(47:52):
was just beautiful. I'm not sure though I tarnished the
memory by seeing him again. Marcus, trust you will go
to the latest Brisco sale new ad for Boxing Day's
sale starting tomorrow. Would you believes Juicy Fest's concert has
been canceled? That's from Phil. I don't think it's been canceled.

(48:12):
Think it's been postponed for They're going indoors, which means
of scunning it down. And Dan tells me text eyes
to four to two three. It's free. Of course, it's free.
It's promotion. It's just a machine. It's not ready vanillaized
calling back. I'm looking forward to your input tonight. People.

(48:34):
Anything goes your highlights, your low lights, your thoughts for
next year. You might be a Carol, you might be
a knoll being. Some very interesting research out on Stonehenge.
They now think that's the whole point of Stonehenge was
that was there to unify and unite Britain or the

(48:55):
United Kingdom, and some of the stones have come and
been gathered from the far corners of the island, which
makes sense to me. Of course, there'll be a lot
of Stonehenge stories because it's almost the winter solstice in
the UK, and since that's kind of a device for

(49:19):
passing of time, and no doubt people are heading that
way for the solstice. I think the Druids are wide
into it. In fact, there's a note on Twitter from
Stonehenge if you plan to join us at the site
for the winter Solstice, please beware that there is limited
parking available. Well, you wouldn't be surprised which we're going

(49:41):
for the solstice goodness. Then there's a daylight savings joke
about people repositioning the blocks for daylight saving. Anyway, Greetings,
greetings and welcome on him as Market SEDE twelve text

(50:02):
calls anything goes tonight till midnight if you've got an
interesting comment, define interesting people saying no Juicy is canceled,
did not get their liqu of license and Timeless may
be moving dates or canceled. Are there two? Are there?
Two ones?

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Are there?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Juicy Fest?

Speaker 8 (50:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:21):
There's two different things. What was I going on about?

Speaker 13 (50:26):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Ah, Timeless? What was it called Timeless Festival? Timeless Summer
was the tour h and Juicy Fest was one day
on the tour. Oh that's complicated, isn't it. So Timeless

(50:52):
Summer has been postponed because some of the venues which
I presume would be well, the Kiwi two should be fine,
shouldn't it. Yeah, I don't know what's happened there. Complicated,
I am actually because I've got young kids. Oh, we
do go to music festivals. I'll listened to us Breggy,

(51:14):
but I'm not going to the big ones and the
boozy ones. I don't really know what's going on with those.
Scott Marcus, Great, Scott, good evening.

Speaker 14 (51:25):
Good evening, Marcus. Timeless, the Timeless Summer and the Juicy
Fest are two very different things. That's what I thought
the Timeless sum or whatever it's called is kind of
the that's the Boy George and the Little River Band, Yeah,
kind of the oldest and winery kind of thing. And
Juicy is like a R and B and hip hop festival. Sure,

(51:49):
but I believe I believe they're put on by the
same organization because a lot of the venues are the same.
It would be like, you know, Juicy Fest one day
and then Timeless a couple of days later, so they're
using the same infrastructure kind of thing. But I think
because Juicy Fest is pulled out, so that's what the
whole thing is out.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Wow. Yeah, And Juicy Fest is the more R and
B one with Ludicrous and Acorn and JA. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (52:17):
Yeah, that's that's the one where there's been issues in
the past of gang members getting into altercations and stuff
that's right, you know, which probably isn't going to happen
at the Little Riverband.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Well a this a this Bonnie Tyler is giving off sparks.
It wasn't a very good joke.

Speaker 14 (52:35):
Maybe I don't know. She's in the blood of the Crypt.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
But now but she's living in a powder keg and
that's always difficult isn't it Okay?

Speaker 14 (52:43):
Yeah, true's expense to go back to your eliot.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Yes, would they get would they get together and say
we've got If they all got on stage together, wouldn't
it being Bondy Tyler and Starship and boy George? Okay,
so that's what you mean.

Speaker 14 (52:57):
You mean if they got on stage?

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yeah, well that would be good also, I think that's good.
Were you going to Juicy Fest?

Speaker 14 (53:04):
No, I wasn't going to go, but I'm aware of
what it is. Yeah, it must have I yes, because
of I don't know if you've been talking about it
as well, but the what do you call it? The
Langwey Festival, that's obviously they had an announcement. Yeah, so
it sounds like I don't from what I understand from

(53:26):
the Herald article the Juicy Fist, they were still waiting
to hear, but it didn't sound hopeful that they were
going to get their license. I think they said we'll
pull the plug now. But I don't know if today
is the day where people found out about their licenses,
I mean besides Laneway, or if they saw the Laneway
use and thought, well, if they're not giving them, you know,
a special permission there's no way they're going to give

(53:47):
us permissions, so we're just going to call it quotes now.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Sort of laneway want.

Speaker 14 (53:53):
Laneway used to be asked sixteen, so I guess they
had a license, you know, to have the bars there
and then still have sixteen and seventeen year olds there,
and but now the councilor said no, you can't. That
the whole thing is going to be erting. I think
supposedly because they don't want to encourage team drinking fair enough.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Auckland District licensing committees they might have just they probably
meet every six weeks or something, and their kind of
reports have come out today, Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 14 (54:22):
Assume.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Yeah, it's interesting because I'm thinking there are so many
festivals and so many groups touring these days, but of
course that's where the money is, because you're not making
money from album sales, are you. You've got a tour
to get the dora A me.

Speaker 14 (54:36):
Yeah, And I think because the expenses of touring are
often really high. That's oftentimes, especially with these outdoor things,
they rely on the alcohol sales to make the profit,
you know, because people might spend maybe they're going to
pay a hundred bucks just pulling a number out of
the air for the tickets. But they might go in there,
you know that, and it might cost them ninety five

(54:57):
of that one hundred dollars just to put on the
acts and the stage and the security and all that
kind of stuff. But then they might sell one hundred
dollars bit of boos and slide, which is you know,
eighty percent proper. And that's that. I think that can
be the difference between you know, being in the red
or and the black and the Oh, I think.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
It's there, you go.

Speaker 14 (55:15):
I think it's a bit disappointing for the Laneway thing
that they said, you know, sixteen and seven, I go, like,
I mean, I'm a lot older than that myself now,
but I used to go to the but I went
to my.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
First big doubt when yeah, me too, I was going
to sweep all those sweet waters around fifteen sixteen was
because that's when you're your peak of loving your music
and you're most open to music. Also exactly, Yeah, that was.

Speaker 14 (55:36):
I'm amazed how many different things there are and now
concerts and festivals like in my day, you know, it
was there's the big doubt. I mean, there was parachute
and then it was the gathering, you know, and that
was about it, and now there's a million of them.
But I think it's sad, if you know. I think.
And and also the lane Way one. You know, it's

(55:57):
at Western Springs and it's on the day, you know,
I mean, it finishes a ten or something, but I
don't think that's particularly dangerous place for kids to go, computed.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
To that immeasure if they've turned it down. And because
I'm in Christmas mode, I haven't really read the article,
but there might have been some blowback from last time,
would that be right?

Speaker 14 (56:17):
I mean, I mean possibly, but I don't know. I think,
I mean, I guess I'm kemparing it to other, you know,
some of the other events, especially the ones some of
the you know, the more electronic music focused, you know,
that are kind of literally out in the middle of
the country with you know, compared to being on a
major bus route in ten minutes from the city. Scenes
I think there's things that I don't know how to

(56:43):
phrase it, but I think.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
I hear what you say. It seemed like it would
be one of the safer festivals for something like that.
They're near infrastructure, not going to be a band in the
country and choking on their own vomit and tents or something.

Speaker 14 (56:57):
Eh, yeah, exactly. They're not going to be trying to
get back to Gismon that one am without a bus path.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yea, or hitching on in other places. I'll look at
that's got good call, thank you. So when then using
an Herald article about lane Ways, that's the big Auckland
festival at Western Springs, there is quite a bit of
information about why they have had their liquor license revoked
for eighteenth for an event that can accommoate sixteen and

(57:23):
eighteen year olds. There was different zones where the sixteen
year olds could go where they couldn't have alcohol and
eighteen year olds old, so there was different zones, but
those zones went well policed and also moving between the
zones caused hassel. There were even people treated for intoxication.
So it was quite a complicated appraisal of that. So

(57:48):
that's why we've got to be eighteen to go to Laneways, Hi, Marcus.
The summer tour was re expensive, repeca has beens I
wouldn't pay and it was in my hometown. Lots of
ticket advertising recently, so it sounds like tickets sales slow,
like the Bowl of Brooklyn's quite happily paid to go
to Aukland for Coldplay for an amazing concert and shows,

(58:11):
and show being more discreetioned with what now. Merry Christmas, Glennis,
I don't know how much tickets were to the summer tour.
It feels a bit almost a bit like the Gibbs,
the one in Gibson out of Queenstown. There's always a
Christmas tour and they always, you know, a summer concert.

(58:33):
They always seem to have three or four kind of
faded stars that have nothing much in common, but people
love it. Looks like you get baked in the sun though.
Tickets two hundred and three dollars two hundred and thirty
four dollars, too undred and fifty four dollars, so between

(58:54):
two and two fifty VIP three hundred and sixteen dollars, Platinum,
eight hundred and thirty one dollars, luxury toilets, unlimited compromise.
Soft drinks? Will that be worth? How much soft drinks?
I know, if it's soft drinks, could you drink ten
dollars worth? Anyway, it's not going to happen. What's going

(59:15):
to happen, but not the way it's going to happen.
I could believe it. I told you that the Breakers
were had by five points and looked like they were
running ahead with the match. They've lost it, according to
the stuff website. Better but it's still not good enough.
The New Zealand Breakers losing streak hit seven tonight in

(59:38):
a late game meltdown as a late day game meltdown
gift to the Sydney Kings, an eight point victory. Six
hours were watching. The Breakers coughed up a five point
lead with two minutes forty five remaining as they were
outscored sixteen to three thereafter by the Kings. The defeat

(01:00:01):
the first it spark this fast fading season. The Breakers
to seven and ten, with their top six hopes sinking
like a stone. The Kings, with their third victory on
the bounce and fourth of the last five, improved to
eleven to seven. Well that really is bad. So the

(01:00:21):
final score Sidney King's ninety two, the Breakers eighty four.
Surprised to hear that, disappointed, have to tell you that also,
Mark's e a random road question. What a key was too?
Their horns when driving through tunnels? I was on the
Terrace Tunnel and willing to today and it was non stop.
I also remember my family doing this when driving through

(01:00:42):
the tiny tunnel on Mountain Messenger when I was younger.
But have no idea why we do this, as I'm
not sure it doesn't happen overseas or does it don
I don't know if we are tunneled tutors, peculiar two
en deadly do it everywhere. I think it's a New
Zealand thing, Marcus, I could give bone the highlight of

(01:01:03):
twenty twenty four and roading stories. Just completed the caravan
holiday around State East Cape State Highway thirty five, the
longest two digit state highway in New Zealand. Such a
beautiful place to visit with my beautiful daughter of the
last week. Peter claudierates, Marcus, welcome and good evening. Hello.

Speaker 17 (01:01:23):
I'm just thinking about your the parrot on the news tonight.
And some years ago we were over in the Adelaide
Zoo and we were walking along and I was in
front of my husband, and anyhow I got to the
parrot and I said to the parrot hello, and the
parent says hello, Cord and Cook. I'm known as I'm

(01:01:45):
known as Claude in my family for ever since I
was born. And I said to my husband.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Quick, quick, come up here.

Speaker 17 (01:01:51):
So heio to this parrot. So my husband came up.
I said, Cook, hello, and he says hello, and a
parent says hello, Cord. And then we had a good
laugh about that, and we get up a little bit
further and there was the cafe was called Claud Claud Cafe.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
You must have just about fallen over when it received
your name, I did.

Speaker 17 (01:02:14):
I especially being called Cord. Yeah, no, no, it was
so I just had to ring. When I saw the
parrot on TV to night, I was, my god, that
reminds me of the head.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Lad who it's funny. What was the story with the parrot?
I realized it got the quote of the year. I
hadn't really kept up with it.

Speaker 17 (01:02:32):
Well, apparently it was on TV. And then they went
back the next day and it has been stolen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Oh, it's been.

Speaker 17 (01:02:39):
Stolen, and yeah, anyhow they must have got it back somehow,
and that's when it came with a quote.

Speaker 10 (01:02:45):
What was the quote?

Speaker 17 (01:02:46):
And I love or something?

Speaker 7 (01:02:48):
I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
I wasn't quite entirely sure what the quote was, but
I guess it must have won Crowd of the Year
because it was from a parrot.

Speaker 11 (01:02:55):
Yes it was.

Speaker 18 (01:02:56):
It was.

Speaker 17 (01:02:57):
Yeah, so that's why I had to ring her. And
I actually rang here earlier in the year because I
was a Lippia baby that ring.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Oh wow, I love a baby.

Speaker 17 (01:03:06):
Yes, I'm woman. Brang you my sister. Whod you say?
You wanted to speak to somebody? So I rang in you?

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Oh wow? So between next year? Is no good for you?
Is it?

Speaker 17 (01:03:21):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:03:22):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:03:22):
No, not next yes, but anyhow, Yes, my my daughter
was born on Leapier too, so we were extra special.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Is unbelievably special? Could you? Did you do you know
what the odds of that is? No?

Speaker 17 (01:03:31):
Yes, yes, yes I do. I will one and over
two millions?

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Wow?

Speaker 17 (01:03:37):
Ye anyhow, Yeah, that's all I want to talk about,
really about.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
The parrot rather than like that Gloria like you, no nonsense,
Sir Claude. That's great. Someone that's one hundred and one
and someone that's born on leap Day and their daughters
born on lep Day. Wow, now that is great. His

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interesting text marcus favorite call of the year might have
been A ten introduced me to Carol the crackerpacker that's
a great song, Carol the Crackerpecker. And a corner of
Carlyle stands a cracker factory cars crackers by father tastes
as crackers you've ever seen. In the corner of the
corner stands a woman as strong as a barrel. She

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is the fastest crackerpacker, and she went by the name
of Carol. She was Carl Carol the Crackerpecker. One of
the great songs our Playt's got an IF word and
I'm just gonna count how many IF words in it
it's got. It's a very good song. One F word,
two f words. It's a long song. It's better than

(01:04:49):
the Carol. Oh, it's got a C word and it's
not cracker. Google it up and listen to it. Flowin'
Joan Marcus. Where As a child I couldn't stand that song, Sarah.
Now I'm forty eight and I can say that song
is all true. I don't really know that song. Can
you tell me about the song of Starship? I was

(01:05:12):
looking at the lyrics before. I don't even know what
the moral of the song is, cause someone ring. We
haven't actually talked about music for a while. I know
the chorus, Sarah serruhs, storms are brewing your eyes, Sarah Sarah.

(01:05:32):
No time is a good time for goodbyes. Yeah, okay,
fair enough, but don't they break up and he thinks
it's a good thing. Go now, don't look back withdrawn
the line, move on. It's no good to go back
in time, Marcus. I remember joke about the guy trying
to get into a pub up north and needed a
tie and the bounce to declined him. The punter went

(01:05:56):
to his Karen, found jump a leede, ties it around
his neck and approaches the bounce again the bounce to
let him in, but on the condition didn't start anything.
It's good. I'll tell you what I would do a
joke night. But it's difficult listen to jokes if you're
worried you're not going to understand them. And also then
the rude ones come through. Marcus. I haven't received a

(01:06:20):
cancelation email from the Summertime Concert Protus, so I've had
a look at their website. Shock horror, There isn't one
word about any of the concert's been canceled. In fact,
they are promoting available tickets. I don't know what to think.
Would all help new Plymouth Olf, New Plymouth. Oh wow,
some long texts coming through Marcus. The beeping of the

(01:06:42):
Maultavatory tunnel started nineteen thirty one, where the seventy year
old girl was murdered by a married man working on
the tunnel. He buried her. Hence people beep in support
of the young woman. Earthquake justin New Plymouth. Thank you
for that text. I'll go to the website. Everyone else
it's felt that earthquake. Let us know. I'll tell you
very shortly what that was on the scale, and your
calls tonight would be reappreciated. I can see the earthquake now.

(01:07:05):
It's a biggie ten twenty. It's a four point four
to ten k's east of whangan Nui. If you felt that,
let me know. It's been widely felt. So if that's
something you've felt too, I'd be enjoy talking to you
about that. Let me just look on the on the map. Oh,

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it's been hugely widely felt so right that coast, all
around Fonganui. It's been felt up around Taranaki up as
far as topor Hawkspace, felt at Wellington's, felt at Nelson's,
felt at tarkk has felt it. Thanks for the person
of text me if you've got some information about that.
Here the texts coming through. Marcus just had a good

(01:07:48):
earthquake fong Anui. Marcus just to had an earthquake near
fong Nui. Get in touch, welcome and someone set the
email through from the Timeless Summer. So it's been postponed,
So no word of refunds. Short, sharp jolt, felt prolong

(01:08:12):
and give us a call if you felt they'd like
to talk to you about that. Marcus parked up at
Tasman Camp Ruby Bay, a hidden mini resort, friendly owners,
immaculate facilities, pool's TV lounge, pool tables, ping pong on
the Great Taste Cycle Trail, Nelson, Tasman k Teddy Teddy
only thirty k's from home, Away exploring our own backyard

(01:08:36):
twenty five years now near Vantage Campavan off from home
at any opportunity, listen to your show and chip and
sometimes when you're on the road, love it. Merry Christmas,
enjoy a happy, safe holiday to you and your crew.
Chairs BRender. Have I heard right that the LB concert
is canceled. It hasn't been canceled, It's been postponed. It's

(01:08:56):
all about the earthquake. Now, this is what we need.
Good evening. Janet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:09:03):
I'm not just quite a shake and woke me up
out of the deep sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Wow, Jane, goodness, are you okay?

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:09:13):
Okay, because my cats for getting a bit terrified to
come inside. We get so many and you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Have psychic abilities. Did you know this was coming?

Speaker 10 (01:09:25):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:09:25):
And I got busy about an hour ago when I
was up to the bathroom and I could hardly stand up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Is it a foretelling? A foretelling dizziness?

Speaker 19 (01:09:38):
Well, I don't know. I think it might have been
so that the quick quack starting, maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
The pre trimmer.

Speaker 19 (01:09:46):
Yeah, it was quite strange. I thought there's something wrong
with me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Did you feel did you feel like the ground was
falling beneath you and the bed?

Speaker 19 (01:09:56):
No, it was just a good hard shake.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Love, a good heart shake. Jen, thank you make it's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:10:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Hi.

Speaker 18 (01:10:04):
I was listening to your show, of course, and I
hear it coming. I thought, wow, there's quake, and then wham.
There was a short chap and was quite a prediction joke.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
It sounds to me like that's a once in a
year type quake.

Speaker 18 (01:10:23):
I don't recall when this year. So yeah, I know
they had come off Pi Kakaki and marlbro but not
I'm going to know either. Boy, that was a good eat.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something too, Mac.
And this might be to do with a false reporting,
But there was one reported six minutes ago ten K's
Easter fou It was a four point three, and then
two minutes later there was a four point one felt
ten K's northeast of tay Happy. So did you feel
that one as well?

Speaker 18 (01:10:58):
No, just just the one. And I looked at my
clock because it's got a light on it, and it
was ten twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Okay, I appreciate the adherence of the clock. Nothing fell
from shelves, okay, appreciate that. Make that anyone anyone fail
the tire? Anyone feel the tie happy quake? I've just
found the quick So the quiz that you've sent me
that was questions we came up from the show. Isn't
it things we do? We never we never used it?

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Did we?

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Really good quiz? Quick? I don't even know if these
are the quizzes of all the questions we learned from
the year before last. What do you call rare ties
only peek out from the bottom of a car. What
is surf and turf called in Australia? What is the
term for kicking the ball for another player's legs? Where

(01:11:54):
is the flood free Highway? What African country is the
only nontest nation we've ever beaten the All Blacks and
remains the only country unbet regularly against them. Cheap and
October pems frozen berries are a called judi hippatitis a outbreak.
Our frozen berries are important from Serbia. What is the

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top export from Serbia? Is it berries? No, it's not
frozen fruits? Is number five? Oh good? Oh look jeapness.
What is the biggest export from Serbia?

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Yeah, see, I'll put that out there as a question.
That's a good one. Don't google it. So this is
all the things that we learned from twenty twenty three.
Have we just did it two years?

Speaker 15 (01:12:46):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
This is one of your best features. And October pems
frozen berries were recalled judio hippatitis a outbreak. Our frozen
berries are important from Serbia. What is the top export
from Serbia? It's a really good question, anyway, Diane. It's Marcus.

(01:13:14):
Good evening, and welcome, good evening, Merry Christmas, Piero. Can
you Diane? Thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:13:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
I just heard Max McCauley singing Christmas Roses and I
thought that would be nice. I looked it up on
the internet and it's by Hank Snow.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Who's mix McCauley.

Speaker 8 (01:13:38):
Oh, he's from Gore. He's a great course. Max has
been a great participants in the hodowns over the years. Yes,
very he's very good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
In his And is he still in Gore?

Speaker 12 (01:13:56):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Are you on the country music circuit.

Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
Just for the Timmory top?

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Yeah? Are you getting many young yodlers through as it
fallen out of favor?

Speaker 8 (01:14:12):
There'sn't. Well, I don't think people are having children like
they used to do, so that's basically yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Well you're right there, and a lot of people are
leaving the country also, aren't they?

Speaker 8 (01:14:24):
Yes, with their freezing works on that or clothing?

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're where about? You're intimody? Did you
say yeah, you've.

Speaker 8 (01:14:30):
Had yes, because my son was working there. But he
was working there and he has got the bees as well.
He's got too, he's got two jobs. But yeah, but
I mean he's got enough to do with the bees anyway.
I think he's going to shift the down down either.

(01:14:51):
I think he said he's going down to.

Speaker 17 (01:14:54):
Bluff.

Speaker 8 (01:14:57):
Yeah, I think he's got somebody to work from. Who's going.
I think he was hidden down there today or goodness
to morrow anyway, So I might might be down visiting
my aunties very very soon too, because we'll be going
down that way city. I'll give me a ride down.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
So that's a silver lining. Hey, tell me something is
the township is there? Can you know is anything different
with all the redundancies that cast a kind of a
negative vibe over the over the city.

Speaker 8 (01:15:30):
Yes, I think it. I think it has and people are,
like it was saying on the news tonight that people
are not spending and.

Speaker 12 (01:15:39):
Like they used to.

Speaker 8 (01:15:40):
The only places that they will, right, it's the second
hand shops, and which is yes, I mean they're all
in those they you know, like down in the cargo.
They've got heaps of them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
And yes, they certainly have. And the busiest shops are
their second end shops are lot busier than them all.

Speaker 8 (01:16:00):
Yes, Yes, I've been been down there to them two
and you know my aunt, you know, we both went
around them a few years back there what do you
What do you look for? Oh, just sort of basically
something that I don't have to sew, sort of stagey stage.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Oh you look for gear for your for your country performance,
for the gags. Oh you could you get a lot
of that. They're a lot of clothes like that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
I don't, Yes, you do.

Speaker 8 (01:16:29):
And I don't mind men's T shirts either. They're good
household sort of keep the chill after you, you know
that sort of thing. That good.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
I'll tell you something about second hand clothes shops, Diane.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
That's that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
They are all and I particularly think of the ones
I go to the Cargo. They are all extraordinarily well run.
Everything has laid out beauticause once upon a time we
got a second hand shop. They spell, they smell terrible
of mothballs and old clothes, but everything is just they
the way they are displayed and organized.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Ow.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I'm sure a lot of people have volunteers, but you
they need some critic because they're unbelievably well run.

Speaker 8 (01:17:12):
Yes, and that's the same with the Saint John's and
Saint vin He's up.

Speaker 12 (01:17:17):
Here too there.

Speaker 8 (01:17:19):
But yes, I did notice that the last time I
was down there, you know, I mean, you can keep getting.
I'm a better addicted to it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
I could tell that with excite when you're going on
about it. Yeah, well you always get You have to
find that exciting thing, aren't you. You might go for
weeks and you find something that just kind of gets
you back in.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:17:41):
I I used to make designer, you know, designer you
know clothes. I used to copy them from a shop,
either camerons or I had the pattern, but I used
to and altered the pattern to suit, you know what
I mean. And I cut those circular layers. And I've

(01:18:01):
seen that, I've seen the frock very similar, and I thought,
right reminded me. I mean, I've hardly worn them. They've
been I made them for the daughter in laws or
for weddings. That's sort of That's what I made them for.
And I actually did. They have to go to Christchurch
to a wedding. So I had an outfit just right there,
never been worn, and it's all frills from the knee down.

(01:18:25):
And then somebody else got married and I had an
orange outfit and frills from the knee down. So you
get about four or five layers and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Yes, son, sparticular, Yes.

Speaker 8 (01:18:40):
As I've got And then when one of my sons
got married, Oh i've got too married. But that yeah,
I had a blue outfit and some of the material
I actually bought in Australia too, you know. One time
I remember cutting it home, you know, yes, because you

(01:19:02):
couldn't give them here, but I mean you probably can
get it in christ stuts because i'd spotlights, really, my friends,
a spotlight in your town? No, no, we really, we've
got Bunnings, but we could do with spotlight.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
If you had one, that'd be great.

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
Yes, I do, like, Oh well I went to Spotlight.
I found my way back to it when I dropped
at the airport last year and because he was going
back to Australia, and I found my way where he said, well,
best we look at and see where spotlight because they
moved and they're more central in town and they're on
the main, main main drag, you know, So I did.

(01:19:48):
I found my way way back there, and I bought
because my conservatory needed all new new nesting or cursing
around it. So I actually got a white one, a
white cloth with a lot a line in it. And
you can't see in, but I can see out. It's
a bit better than nothing. Yeah, it was really good,

(01:20:10):
and it was the guy was awfully good. He was
the other way and you know he was the other
way but you know, different from male to female or
do you know what I mean? And he was just
so so attentive and good at this job. I couldn't
praise him up enough. It's really really good.

Speaker 10 (01:20:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
Oh, nice to hear from you, Diane. That's been quite
a cool. Well, Mariot's Marcus. Good evening and welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:20:39):
Yeah, I think I'm mate with the news that I
read on stuff about the Southerner trains that's going to
be put on next year. Yes, it'll be fantastic. I
used to catch a train from from Timoru, you know,
from school days up to burn him Basic back in

(01:20:59):
the sixties that would have been there. But when I
read about that today, I thought it was probably taken
get a loan.

Speaker 13 (01:21:07):
To go on it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah, it's only happening for three times. It's not going
all the way to invert cargo, so it's more I think.
For I've read a couple of articles, I can't work
out why they're doing it.

Speaker 16 (01:21:19):
Yeah, I think they're going to see what sort of
a lot of people have asked about something similar, so
they're just going to trial it and if there's a
big response. But you know, there's always a big response
won at the start, but whether it be something that
they can continue see here and take a rolla. We
have the training past like several times a day taking

(01:21:43):
the timber through to the man and we always wish
that there was we should get a train ourselves. Apparently
they can't to do with the size of the tunnel.
The tunnels would have to be bigger if they put
on a passenger service to go through. But yeah, but

(01:22:03):
every now and again they're just go do a like
AI the locals, you know, just for an hour out
and then back again. That's okay. But I don't know
whether you can still do the Rollington to Auckland these
you see them.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
I think you can, but free occasional. I think that
happens every second day. That's real pricey. But thank you,
very nice to hear from you. Happy Christmas. So finally
someone has emailed me, and I believe they probably work
for the railways. I don't know that they haven't asked them.
But this person I won't say his name in case
he's giving me confidential information. The service running between Auckland,

(01:22:42):
sorry between christ Jurch and Dunedin. The service is running
as a special event train while maintenance work has been
carried out on the Transalpine route. So they've got the
rolling stop, they've got the staff, so they may as
well do that. So good on them. Good on that
for that explanation. I'm pleased with that. And where else
would they take it? Because they can't take the North

(01:23:02):
Island because you probably couldn't get it all on the
one fat fear that we've got this rail enabled and
they can't go all. They can't go chriss chitch picton
because it is already a train there. It's exactly what
they'll be doing. It's to shame they can't go right
down to Bluff. But I've been on a Passinger train

(01:23:28):
on the Bluff railway line a couple of years ago.
They've got a railcar down, but it's a very long
and slow trip because the state of the railway means
that you can only go I think there's limits of
twenty five let me this per hour. It talks about
two hours. Terrible And then again did vaicag with that
terrible train station. That's all kind of chicken wired off.
It's disgrace. They should actually do something. I'll get rid

(01:23:51):
of it, or do something and turn it down so
it's got a nicer kind of yeah. Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway,
final hour coming up. I'd like to hear from you
if you want to talk after the news. My name
is Marcus. Welcome, Thank you for your text, Aileen. Nice
to receive that. Good evening, riots, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:24:09):
Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (01:24:11):
Yeah, Marcus, I'm just talgging to den he said, the
run there, they're going to do the un to the Dean.
I mean good there for the for the for the
engine crew to do a run here with with the
south with the on the southern line, because then the
l point down. They could really get a couple of

(01:24:36):
d j's here. They've got to do the tyry run
here if they want to do it, they've got plenty
of I think.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
I think, I think I think they are going to
do that. That's a good point. So they'll take that the.

Speaker 15 (01:24:50):
Cargo. And also, Marcus, the I was talking to one
of the drivers in gray Mouth the other day. You're
there and they're only running to sing engine over to
from quiet to g out there because they've got to
turntable at Elm Lane and they turned the locals here

(01:25:11):
and and so they're running only one engine. I said
to the driver a gray station. I said, he tried
to save diesel. He didn't know they've they've got a turntable.
So they must have got to scored a turntable somewhere,
and they're running just a single engine. And then they
take the southern. They take the trains all point in
the gray house and clean up there. And they turned

(01:25:31):
to the loco there and then come out of the
single engine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
What's the name of the spot where they turn it.

Speaker 15 (01:25:35):
Ray Elm Lane. That's where E L M E R
Elm Lane. Okay, And they've got they used to years
ago when they had the steam trains, either had or
at a turntable there and whether they've fixed it up
or got of deteriorating. When the driver said, they've got

(01:25:58):
another a turntable back there now. So that means they
can only run a single single engine over because they
were they were they were running the d c's the
d c X has met as a double and then
of course the DX have got they've got plenty of
pairs so that they can do a full full trends

(01:26:21):
trans Alpine. And and the tunnel tunnel is still the
open at Tarp so that we we haven't do something
peny of spear locos now.

Speaker 13 (01:26:31):
And the.

Speaker 15 (01:26:34):
Do the loco is a good run there to do
that run down to the need there for four days?

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Can you tell me? Can you tell me where Elma LANs?

Speaker 15 (01:26:43):
It's well if you know graymuth at all, and say
the becker with the Montese and they what they do
what they do there now they load logs and their
out of there and then they they used.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
To bring bring the is it called Gilma Lane, Elma
elma e l m e R. I can see it now, Okay,
copy it.

Speaker 15 (01:27:15):
Here the old roundhouse used to be.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Now do you know what worked? Do you know what
work they're doing on the trans Alpine have to close
it for four days? Do you know what they're doing?

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
Then?

Speaker 15 (01:27:24):
I wouldn't have a clue that I know they were.

Speaker 14 (01:27:27):
They were I think a couple.

Speaker 15 (01:27:29):
Of bridges and bossings and that on the way over there,
But I don't know what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
Okay, are you are you ex railways.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
Right, No, no, no.

Speaker 15 (01:27:41):
One of my friends here is and I used to
play Paul out there. He's one of the drivers here
and he teached me informed what's happening. And and I
quite often go into the into the well Worth here
which is right by the railway station, and see the
drivers talk to the drivers.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Gone here right. Well, it nice to talk to you
and thank you for coming through. There we go twelve
seven nimers man. Anything else you want to talk about
to Stephanie Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 9 (01:28:11):
Yes, Merry Christmas Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Yeah, Merry Christmas. Are you driving now, Stiffany?

Speaker 15 (01:28:16):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Oh yeah? Does it feel does it feel busy or quirer?

Speaker 15 (01:28:24):
Neither?

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
Okay, same, just the same old, same old yeah okay,
And you're not too trouble with anything of the Christmas.
With road closures, you've got your own route.

Speaker 9 (01:28:34):
Yeah, everyone's coming over to it because the Desert Road
will be closed, so didn't make it a bit busier
over National Park.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
What are actually doing to the Desert Road?

Speaker 15 (01:28:44):
Do we know?

Speaker 9 (01:28:46):
I have a feeling they're gonna overlay the Poky Rider
that's the big hill right at the start YEP. And
if you've got trucks running up over the up the
hill with the overlay between days is just gonna go
into corregations. So the easier if we don't.

Speaker 14 (01:29:06):
Run up, it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Makes sense. Are there still I mean you don't go
up at much, but there's still those very tight twenty
five k turns on the desert road.

Speaker 4 (01:29:16):
Yep, they're not all the sisters.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
They're not in any hurry to get rid of those,
are they.

Speaker 16 (01:29:23):
No.

Speaker 9 (01:29:23):
Apparently they did one many many years ago and it
really ran over budget, so they.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Can the rest of them?

Speaker 9 (01:29:34):
Oh well, oh well, and you wanted to talk to
someone who lives in a motor home or gamble band?

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Yeah, I sure do you recommending it?

Speaker 9 (01:29:44):
Well, open in one for teen years?

Speaker 15 (01:29:47):
No dramas, not really at the moment.

Speaker 9 (01:29:51):
I'm back behind our friend's house and looked into their pair.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
Yep, no gardening to have to do, No gardening.

Speaker 9 (01:30:04):
No, Yeah, it's good, good living. You by yourself, You've
got young TV share to all everything, and yeah, you
just bet yourself and do what you want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
Are you able to take your campravan away on a
holiday as it? Can you do that, Stephanie?

Speaker 9 (01:30:23):
I could, but the rigo's on hold.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
I thought, so.

Speaker 9 (01:30:27):
Yeah, no the co at last ceof I did they
have noted the surface rust on the chatty. So until
I get that done and a few other things that
I've just put the regio on hold and maybe about
eighty by something that sat He wrote worthy again.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Yeah, but be on your interest to keep it running,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:30:54):
Yes, so I can move it between places if I
have to, but I wouldn't want to sell it around
to someone else. It's getting a bit long in the
tooth and a bit too much to do to really
bring it back to Yeah, what then wants here?

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
Nice to hear from? Its definitely all the best. Marcus.
The hoghot for me that she was going to Mahia twice.
The said, but was seeing the damage on the road
after Napier. After cycling Gabrielae waved to the road works.
They all wave back. Marcus. Been doing this, mum ever
since we were kids. Now grandkids helped out Christmas breakfast
plates to every home with an elderly within our church.

(01:31:31):
Merry Christmas, Marcus Walter. I think Walter's and Tonga Marcus.
The earthquake activity in New Zealand is the same tectonic
plate as Vadowa two quakes. We live in the shaky aisles.
I think we should all just expect it and always
be prepared. Don't expect her. Have basics like electricity, water, communication,
be prepared, cheers move Collins from McLean's Island. So what

(01:31:54):
is this year in the Chinese calendar? I don't know.
I'll find out. Good evening, Jerriet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
Here, you're there, Marcus? How thanks?

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Sure, you're a good thank you good. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
We speak but not a lot. But I live in
a motorhome. I've been living in years generally, and I'm
in the Nelson, Tasman area. I think I had one
bit better fit from your your caller.

Speaker 15 (01:32:27):
Just before.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
I was parked in a place, and the other day
I was the allied. I was at a function and
someone asked me if I would be a shepherd tomorrow
when they're singing singing carols. And while I can be,
I can be that like I can be the silent shepherd.
You know, I don't have to do the singing, you know,
I think I can handle that role. Anyway, I was

(01:32:54):
just watching TV and just thinking I'll go to bed now,
and I thought, I look what the weather's liked, because
I have a motor scooter also, and off I'll go
into town on my scooter on motor scooter, you see,
and it's going to be pouring down and it's going
to be like that all down for Look, that's a
good carrier move. I'll what can I do?

Speaker 6 (01:33:14):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
I thought, I can to the motor home into town
park in a place, a designated place that we have
for motor homes, and then I'm there. Then there in
the morning, I'm there already, and I don't I don't
get We put up umbrella and walk down it dressed
up as a as as as a shepherd, and I

(01:33:36):
will have my umbro and my shepherd gear on, and
I'll just go along to the carol singing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
Did they pick you as a shepherd because you look
like a shepherd?

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
I probably don't look like a shepherd. No, I don't
even look like a sheep.

Speaker 6 (01:33:50):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
But are they carollers and you're coming and looking for
the part? Is that how it works?

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
They've given me give me the gears, you see, They've
given me a shepherd outfit, which I haven't head on.
You haven't tried it on? Yet, but I think I
look quite and you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
You don't have to sing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
I'll just mind at market.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Good love sink, that's the answer.

Speaker 11 (01:34:11):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:34:12):
Do you move?

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Do you move from place to place often? Jerry, You're
pretty established.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
It sends on what I want to do. Sometimes I
might be in a place for a little while if
it's out of way, not not in people's way. And
other times I'm sort of every note tonight I'm somewhere else.
I just depends on what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
Really okay, And what are you normally doing?

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
Oh, I do a lot of voluntary work, and I'm
involved in different things like that, and I do you know,
I get involved in the community and doing doing voluntary
work sounds fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
Do you have a good break and enjoy the carols? Tina? Hello, Hello, Martha,
Tell you good Tina had a new year and all
that kind of thing, having a new year to you two?

Speaker 7 (01:34:55):
Oh good good. So I was listening another night, but
I didn't get a chance to call in about your McDonald's,
about your soft serve ice cream. Yes, okay, So I
used to work at a factory in We're in South
Auckland that used to make the products for McDonald's for
the I don't think it was for the ice creams,
but it was more for the thick shakes. And so
I can tell you how I can tell you how

(01:35:16):
it was made.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Oh, we didn't talk about the thick shakes. That's right,
I'd forgotten about the thick shakes.

Speaker 7 (01:35:22):
Yeah, well, I think those similar sort of product anyway,
So I'll tell you how it works. So a truck
would come in with a silo. It looked like a
milk tanker, and the silo had fatten it, which is
different kinds of fats, which is a glucose, and the
silo would get tilted up on its end and they
put steam into it which would melt it. And they
would go through into different into the factory, into different bats,

(01:35:43):
and the food technologists would do certain things with it.
And then it would go through what they call a
high pressure pump, which about four thousand psi, and would
push this product up for a very very timed tube
through this air dryer. And what it would do is
look imagine a shower, but the shower I was spraying
down the product and as it hit the heat, it
would dry instantly. And they used to put flavorings with it,
which would make banana flavoring, chocolate flavoring, and it would

(01:36:06):
be bagged up and then go off to your McDonald's
and Tiptop and all those kind of places. So basically
it was pigs that that used to come in the silos.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
So there you go, So does pig fan and the
thick shakes.

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
Yes, yes it is. That was twenty plus years ago,
so they may have changed the ingredients of now, but
that's how they used to do it. So we used
to make banana flavoring, chocolate flavorings, ice creams, all sorts
of stuff. And it was you know, like if you're
making food on a production scale, you need ingredients just
like you do at home. So we provided ingredients on
a production scale to different providers, and one of them

(01:36:43):
used to go to McDonald's, I believe, for their thick cakes.
So there you go. Let's how let's hear it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
So you believe, So you believe? So you went suiting
where it was going.

Speaker 7 (01:36:55):
No, no, no, but I do know that it was
some of it was going to McDonald's in KFC in
places like that. Yeah, So banana flavorings, chocolate flavorings. A
lot of it went to Tiptop for ice cream for
their flavoring ice cream.

Speaker 10 (01:37:08):
I do know that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:09):
And so it was bagged up into twenty five kg bag,
just like a beg of cement. And then when they
finished that product run, they would do a cop clean
in place a big factory and then put a new
product through. But it was all what they called spray
dried powders products. So as soon as this high pressure
of liquid hit the seat, it would form a drive
instantly go into a powder.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
Nice stuff, Tina, thank you so much for that. You're
not sure if that's true now, but there we go.
Twenty seven past eleven. Marcus also have camp also caravan
which is roadworthy, and have stayed away and at a
few times. Definitely thanks Diffney. Twenty twenty five is the
year of the wood snake. Of course that doesn't kick
until later on. In January email from Sarah Marcus. I've

(01:37:51):
just made a sparagus rolls using a can of Golden
Sun asparagus spears. There were so many spears and it
was real value for money. It made fifteen without it
made fifteen with about five spears in each. I was
expecting more liquidly got tightly packed asparagus. So this person's

(01:38:13):
got seventy five asparagus spears in a tin, golden sun
asparagus spears. Good evening, Michael Marcus. Welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:38:24):
Good inding to you. Just a brief comment on the
Waiketto Expressway. Sure, yeah, the last couple of years it's
been quite annoying. There's a part where you've got to
merge down to like one lane and it's like a
real crawl to get through it. And I was coming
down today coming from walking to Cambridge and it's finally opened.
One hundred and ten k's right through it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:45):
So what was that?

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
Was that maintenance or that just because someone else's beat
that is that maintenance or something? They just opened?

Speaker 11 (01:38:52):
It was just a maintenance, but they seemed to take forever,
and it's so annoying both ways. And I was expecting to,
you know, the daily know, the regular crawl through and
it was all open.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
But why are they doing maintenance in the road.

Speaker 11 (01:39:06):
It's not that old, I know, I know, it's yeah.
I think maybe the truck to do either it or something.
But it's taken a long time. But it was so
nice it's so nice that it's all up and raining again.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
So the roads that have been there for four years
is three years?

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
Is that right?

Speaker 11 (01:39:23):
Maybe that has been there a bit longer. Okay, yeah,
but it's yeah, it's going to be making a lot
of hippie drivers.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Okay. Nice to hear from you, Michael, Thank you, Marcus.
I buy Golden Sun products, great value, baby corn, jam
pecked hard any water, livingstone. Thank you, baby corn, baby
corn do do? How good are peppy choosing the Kiwi
Favorites box? Didn't even know they were there? What even
is a Kiwi Favorites box? Marcus is a good text.

(01:39:55):
Best wishes for the festive season, Marcus, thanks for many
nights of good listening. A few average ones, but mostly great.
Here's the twenty twenty five that's from Sam. Oh sorry
about the few average ones. I do try my best.
Good evening, Phoenix, it's Marcus. Welcome Phoenix.

Speaker 20 (01:40:18):
Oh, welcome, bro. Congratulate you on a great, great year
on your topics by the way, thank you. Oh you're welcome. Mate.
You've had some interesting and i'd say quite dull, but
it's so interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
Has it all been dull?

Speaker 16 (01:40:38):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:40:39):
Not quite.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Very is a some night's dell, some night's not so dull.

Speaker 10 (01:40:45):
Yes, but that's what woke me up.

Speaker 20 (01:40:48):
There was a very fancas.

Speaker 15 (01:40:52):
I'm in Mangoti.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
Good on, you're nice to talk to you, Kushler Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:40:58):
Okay, I hope you can enjoy hearing from me to
not anyway, hYP Merry Christmas. And also that I want
to talk about you know they're putting ambrosia. I remember
you're talking about it. It's a week or two ago
and no one gave you the recipe and may I
do so or not?

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of ambrosia, but I
know people are. Was it a recipe? It's just more
an assemblage?

Speaker 10 (01:41:23):
Is it just like.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
To cream?

Speaker 6 (01:41:27):
But you'll have whooped cream. First, get a bottle of
wook cream and it depends on how much you want
to make. Then get a curton of mixed berry yoga
or a plummy you sort of one, and then what
you do then it's gets some chocolate chips and then
of course little marshmallows preferably, but you can cut or

(01:41:50):
you are you are a bigger ones that want to
buy it in the confectionery sort of part of it,
but you can also go to the baking section where
it's it sells for smaller marshmallows. You know, different colors,
and you put that in and mix it in and
it's your embrace. You can add extra berries to it
if you wish to do so, or nuts, but it's

(01:42:12):
not necessary, you know, really.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Nice than a trifle. Kushner, thank you. Carla Marcus. Hello, Hello, Hi,
Carla Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:42:22):
Gooday Marcus, thank you, Hi. Just wishing you a merry
Christmas and a great new year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
What was your twenty twenty four highlight?

Speaker 13 (01:42:34):
I'll let me know. Let me tell you about our
low light. My mom and dad, Kath and Ellen. Listen,
three of us listen to you every night. And this
week my mom had a heart attack. She's fine, she's
getting there. She's got a long recovery.

Speaker 16 (01:42:51):
But yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:42:53):
And January we're off to Raratonga.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Oh is she going to be well enough for that?

Speaker 13 (01:42:58):
Well, she's got the doctors all approval to fly. But yeah,
hopefully she's going to be Okay. My daughter's getting there.
Oh God, all our family are fine. To rather a
tongue on the seventh of January, and yep, yeap looking
forward to that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
And do you live with your mom and dad?

Speaker 13 (01:43:16):
No? No, no, we live on the same street. But
we all we all my family live in cross sheets.
My parents have on the same street as me.

Speaker 2 (01:43:24):
Goodness, how'd that come about?

Speaker 13 (01:43:28):
They had to sell your house and they lived just
around the corner from me, and they had to sell
your house and now they live on the same street.
I'm at two four two A and at eight.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
Oh I see, hey, now who's getting married? Your daughter's
getting married?

Speaker 13 (01:43:45):
My daughter is getting married.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
And we at the lagoon at Marie Lagoon. Is that
where they go.

Speaker 13 (01:43:51):
I'm not sure what resort we go into, but there's
a whole pile of us going over. And the funny
thing about it is we fly out in the seventh
of January, and that's my granddaughter's fourteenth birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:44:05):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:44:06):
Tongua is twenty four hours behind.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:44:09):
So we're arrived here on those firsts and then next
over wake up a bit bet that game?

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
Well, goodness, man, how would that happen? Eh?

Speaker 13 (01:44:18):
Well, have you beat that, Marcus and take you in
loveless Intia brilliant?

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
Okay, Carla, Hello a birthday. Yeah, it's not it's July,
but it's good for.

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
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